From Criminals to Slaves

Lee Koch, Insa

doi:10.1086/729537

Current Anthropology

2024

DOI: 10.1086/729537

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From Criminals to Slaves

Insa Lee Koch

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Modern Slavery and the Punitive–Humanitarian Complex

Carvalho,

Foreman,

Tawfic

et al. 2024

The British Journal of Criminology

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This paper provides a critical analysis of modern slavery (MS) policy, legislation and discourse in the United Kingdom. Challenging the suggestion that recent attempts to dilute protections and guarantees in the original MS framework represent a fundamental shift from a more humanitarian to a more punitive orientation, it argues that these two moments ought to be understood as products of a single, underlying articulation, the ‘punitive–humanitarian complex’. We first explore the context and discourse of the MS agenda, exposing an ambivalence within its core tenets, primarily manifested through the dichotomy between victims (slaves) and offenders (slavers). The paper then examines how the punitive–humanitarian complex engenders moral and affective economies and reflects on how it reveals the vulnerability of contemporary state power.

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Modern Slavery and the Punitive–Humanitarian Complex

Carvalho,

Foreman,

Tawfic

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The British Journal of Criminology

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From Criminals to Slaves

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